Out the Door in Wichita
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Longtime KWCH Anchor Roger Cornish is leaving the station after the May book.
Cornish, whose father was on the staff when the station went on air in 1953 and whose wife and son worked there for a time, too — is retiring after his final broadcast on May 23.
"Forty one years, six months and 13 days is enough, I think," says the 63-year-old.
Cornish grew up watching his father in various jobs at the station, and he says it's "all I really ever wanted to do."
Cornish started as a cameraman at age 17. At 18 in 1972, he married. His wife, Wanetta, eventually became the station's receptionist before leaving for a banking job.
"When we got married, I was making $1.60 an hour," Cornish says. "The take-home was about 100 bucks." So in other words, times haven't changed much.
Cornish says when he leaves, don't look for him on social media.
"You know, they call it social media," he says. "I'm pretty unsocial."
He says so much of the television business today revolves around social media and websites. "Like an old, uneducated man, I had trouble with it," Cornish says. "I'm an old-fashioned guy."
